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The moderates, and they came forth with several of them with the op-ed in "the new york times" about their national security backgrounds and their concern about the national security of the united states, and nowimperiled it, and we have to look out for those individuals and the entire country in trying to get as much support as possible on this issue, and this is the best way to do it with a concise report on foreign interference and our national security. >> congressman steve cohen in a very b...

They would rather make their case in right-wing media and hopefully fall back on the senate. im not confident theyre going to put forward any meaningful defense in the senate either. they know they have the votes there. theyll put a half-hearted defense out there. say the senate acquitted them and continue to make the political case out of this. i think thats a mistake and i think it reflects the reality. if they had a defense to put forward, they would be putting forward those witnesses. they j...

Iowa is not the diverse state. of course if youre going to talk about diversity in iowa, i think its more along the lines of the type of backgrounds folks have between the rural parts of the state and the urban parts of the state. i think thats where often types defenders of the iowa caucus tell you youve got to go out and campaign and know agriculture and the ethanol industry as well as knowing about college like on a campus like this at the university of iowa. >> well leave it there. dueling s...

Happening around him and is in fact, doubling down. i do think that there are a lot of risks here for republicans as they move forward and for the president and, you know, base on our reporting, white house aides are not thrilled with the fact that giuliani continues to do these kinds of things in part because the people that hes dealing with in ukraine do not necessarily have great backgrounds. weve already learned from the hearings that have happened so far on capitol hill that it was widely b...

This on the last word amounts to a hill of beans when it comes to power structures, right? in the end, jason makes an important point. women continue to go on changing our world and putting into stark relief what you and ana marie are just saying, but we still continue to have the same problem. if its incidental that a woman happens to be the ambassador to ukraine, so be it. if theres a remarkable expert on russia/u.s. relations, so be it. if the expert on constitutional law happens to be a woma...

>> yeah, i feel like theres an existential moment were going through right now. were having this big debate on quote-unquote electability, bu were missing whats happening in this moment. were forgetting that a whole bunch of women of all different colors and backgrounds won in the last election we had in 2018. and so the idea that a woman could not win when the woman who ran the last time got more votes than the unqualified and unexperienced man running for the same position. i think that we hav...

Seats, in the process of making the decision about impeachment we know that ever since you know, the early -- the homes after the 2018 midterms those moderate freshman democrat who is got the house to flip have been concerned about how a conversation about impeachment could affect their ability to keep hold of those seats in 2020 and of course for pelosi and her allies the absolute nightmare scenario would be trump potentially getting re-elected in 2020 and those democrats losing control of the ...

Rogue figure is ridiculous. and as we speak, he is apparently in ukraine talking to people with shady backgrounds still trying to get this dirt, which doesnt exist, on joe biden. and what we also know, because rudy giuliani keeps telling us, is that for these people, quote, corruption is the same as an investigation into joe biden. that is very harmful to the presidents position, who has been trying to make the claim, as ridiculous as it might seem, that he is really interested in cleaning up co...

Democratic debate. tweeting "the medias flawed formula for electability has pushed aside women and candidates of color. our parties diversity is our strength and its a shame that we are headed for a december debate without a single person of color." josh kraushaars politics editor for the national journal. what do you think about this? >> heres an uncomfortable truth for both cory booker and julio castro. photos of all races and backgrounds were not that entered them. african-americans didnt sup...

The scenes acrimony in their marriage. i think that this is an independent couple. they are not joined at the hip as her office has told me several times. shes independent and likes her own space. shes a bit of a loner. and i think the first couple have, in their 20 years together, found a way to make their marriage work and one of those things is not sharing a bedroom. >> or a floor apparently. i want to ask quickly about relationshiping. not just with the president but ivanka. whats the relati...